Team
The people at Sprintteam all account for years of experience in commercial software production. They share an interest in multimedia, but they have another common ground: they met at the leading Dutch multimedia software company Lost Boys, where they worked together for several years. After going their own ways for a while, they have reformed at sprintteam where they bring the same level of enthusiasm and innovation. Combined the team has worked in very diverse environments, including R&D, product development and contracting organisations. If you are curious to find out more, you can always contact us.
People
Mathijn Elhorst
Mathijn's professional career started at the University in Delft in 1994 where he was, as a PhD in Computational Physics, the architect and programmer of a massively parallel constrained molecular dynamics program. Entirely written in C++, a novelty in that time, and running on a multitude of parallel supercomputers the program is still being used for research actively. He continued writing exciting programs when he joined Lost Boys in 1997. Stimulated by the technological demanding creative ideas of graphical designers, he made innovative and original implementations. He is a good independent analytical and abstract thinker and automatically thinks beyond one time solutions. Furthermore, with his good communicative skills and enthusiasm Mathijn can motivate other people and is considered a real team player.
After being project leader for many large scale projects he became chief development manager of the R&D department. Other roles he played within Lost Boys are: system architect, quality assurance manager, people manager and of course programmer. The last year within Lost Boys Mathijn was technical lead in a successful European interactive television/video research project, Smartcast. The goal, "Create Once, Publish Everywhere" was reached with original ideas, sound design and choosing for international standards, in this case interactive MPEG-4. Mathijn continues to sustain and improve his expert knowledge of C++ and interactive MPEG-4 daily. He has excellent hands-on knowledge of Java, Javascript, Perl, shell-scripts, Makefiles, VRML-2 and OpenGL. He has years of programming experience on Windows, Mac and Unix variants.
Huib-Jan Imbens
Huib-Jan owns a masters degree in physics and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Utrecht. After a year of mathematics research at the Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik in Germany, he joined Cap Volmac, later Gap Gemini, one of the leading IT companies in the Netherlands. During most of his four and a half year stay at Cap Volmac he worked for the company's research lab.
In January 1995 he joined Lost Boys, at that time a small multimedia/Internet startup with 6 employees. His first project for Lost Boys was building an Internet browser for the Philips Cdi platform. In 1999 he left Lost Boys as head of the coding department which employed 35 C++ and Java programmers. In the meantime Lost Boys had become the leading Internet company in the Netherlands with over 150 employees.
Since 1999 Huib-Jan has worked as a freelance programmer and consultant. He has experience with
- programming in C++, C, Java, PHP, VB
- programming for Windows, Linux, Symbian/Epoc, Windows CE
- management of large and mid scale software projects
- database systems, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, ODBC
Steven Kramer
Steven will soon reach his 20th anniversary as a programmer. In the meantime, he also took up science and graduated from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in astrophysics. As a professional programmer, he has worked as a free agent for many years and held several positions at Lost Boys companies. At Lost Boys his work included software development individually and in teams, managing customer communications and technical management of the company.
Over the years, interactive software, digital media and the C++ language have become his mainstay and he sometimes believes he has reached guru status. He has a strong interest in technological innovation and its application in new markets. This has led him into many pastures new and has given him expertise in a very diverse set of technologies and platforms. For instance, he is hopefully one of the few people who can claim having written a database engine with optimizing SQL query processing from scratch. He has worked in:
- Large scale object-oriented software development and frameworks
- Real-time digital media (2d gfx, audio processing, movies, animations, radio/tv broadcast)
- User interface and interactive software
- Database management systems and applications (SQL, ODBC)
- Portable/wireless applications (PocketPC, Symbian)
- Web scripting on client- and serverside
- C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP,
- Microsoft Windows, PocketPC, MacOS, MacOS X, Linux and other Unices
- Consumer electronics firmware
- X-ray astronomy
